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Rise Labs
RISE is a high-speed Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain built specifically for real-time financial markets, offering millisecond-level EVM composability. Its flagship product, RISEx, is a unified onchain exchange enabling trading of crypto perpetuals, equities, and commodities 24/7 with 1ms orderbook updates, automated yield on idle margin, and portfolio margining. The chain targets traders, DeFi builders, and financial application developers.
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RISE positions itself as 'the trading chain' — a blockchain designed natively for markets rather than retrofitted for them. The RISE Chain is a high-speed Ethereum L2 featuring a Continuous Block Pipeline and Secured Shred Preconfirmations, delivering 1ms latency, over 50,000 TPS peak throughput, and 5 Ggas/s compute capacity. Every smart contract on RISE can interact with a native orderbook (MarketCore) in a single transaction, enabling shared liquidity infrastructure for onchain spot, perpetuals, and other orderbook primitives across the ecosystem. The platform's flagship application, RISEx, is a fully onchain unified exchange offering 1ms orderbook updates, 24/7 trading across crypto, equities, and commodities, AutoYield (automatic yield on idle margin with no lock-ups), and portfolio margin that lets offsetting positions reduce capital requirements. RISE serves traders, DeFi protocol builders, and developers building financial applications, and is backed by notable figures including Vitalik Buterin, Sandeep Nailwal, Stani Kulechov, and Sassal.eth.Grant Funding
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2024
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$3.2M